Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Felske defaulted third doubles when Janet Teltscher, who was to have played with Deirdre Wilde, fell ill just before the match. Martha Roberts and Debbie Kalish, the first doubles team, won their match against UMass three weeks ago under a special arrangement which allowed that match to qualify them for the Massachusetts State Championships...
...first three games of this mostly cold and rainy Series was mildly remarkable. Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, long famous for sitting coatless through a heavy frost when prime-time television commitments are at stake, proved that he was equally up to the challenge in a mid-autumn monsoon. Rain fell before or during each of the first three games, and temperatures were in the numbing 30s and low 40s, but Kuhn came sans coat and umbrella one night. He saw to it that players kept up appearances as well, forbidding the wearing of woolen ski caps during batting practice...
...more difficult, however, to pretend it was baseball season on the field. Players slipped and fell in the slop; frozen fingers committed eleven errors in the first three games. The vagaries of nature were compounded by the fact that for television reasons, five of the Series' seven games did not begin until 8:30 p.m., and a sixth was scheduled for late Sunday afternoon to avoid a ratings clash with pro football...
...doorstep with an eight-yd. run on the next play and Reynolds took them over the threshold on a bootleg left from the three. Princeton then showed that Navarro's concern was not for naught when a fumbled snap by Reynolds on the conversion forced a passing attempt that fell incomplete...
...sidelines effectively as the first half wound down and brought Harvard to the enemy 21. But a six-yd. loss on a rollout pass to Beatrice brought in Dave Cody for a 44-yd. field goal try with five seconds left. Cody's kick into the swirling wind fell short as time expired...